The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson
27.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
1829, Tasmania. John Batman, ruthless, singleminded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white man. This is the roving party and their purpose is massacre. With promi ...Show more
Brothers and Sisters by Charlotte Wood
32.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
'Your brother or sister, it might be said, is your other self - your grander, sadder, braver, shrewder, uglier, slenderer self ...Your sibling is your most severe judge and your fiercest defender. You must always rescue them. They always abandon you ...You recognise one another, this is your relief and ...Show more
Sex and Stravinsky by Barbara Trapido
22.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
The time is 1995, but everybody has a past. Brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren't easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband with Stravinsky-glasses and twelve-year-old daughter. Zoe reads girls' ballet books and longs for lessons; a th ...Show more
Pearl of China by Anchee Min
22.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Anchee Min's new novel reveals the extraordinary life of Pearl S Buck. In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, two young girls from very different worlds collide and become inseparable companions. Willow is hardened by poverty and fearful for her future; Pearl is the daughter of a Christian missionar ...Show more
Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
10.00 AUD
24.99 (59% off)
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: From
From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Rajiv Chandrasekaran tells the memorable story of this ill-prepared attem ...Show more
America America by Ethan Canin
24.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
It is 1971. Nixon is in the White House, the war in Vietnam shows no sign of ending, and Corey Sifter, the young son of working-class parents, is befriended by the powerful Metarey family, whose patriarch is a kingmaker in the world of New York politics. Before long Corey is an aide to the great Senator ...Show more
Micro by Michael Crichton
16.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
Three men are found dead in the locked second floor office of a Honolulu building, with no sign of struggle except for the ultra-fine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot, nearly invisible to the human eye. In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking ...Show more
Eternal on the Water by Joseph Moninnger
22.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
From the day Cobb and Mary meet kayaking on Maine's Allagash River and fall deeply in love, the two approach life with the same sense of adventure they use to conquer the river's treacherous rapids. But rivers do not let go so easily, and neither does their love. So when Mary's life takes the cruelest t ...Show more
The Accident Man by Tom Cain
19.95 AUD
Category: FICTION
Meet the Accident Man, Samuel Carver. Carver is a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people. Drug-baron's helicopter develops mechanical failure mid-flight: reason being Samuel Carver. Terrorist blown-up in his own bomb factory: again the reason being Samuel Carver. Ex-SAS, now freelance mercen ...Show more
The Last 10 Seconds by Simon Kernick
19.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
36 HOURS AGO: A brutal serial killer is arrested on the streets of north London after a two-year reign of terror. Known as the Night Creeper, he's earned his reputation by torturing five young women to death. 24 HOURS AGO: Undercover cop Sean Egan has infiltrated one of the country's most notorious crim ...Show more
The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith
24.99 AUD
Category: FICTION | Series: Isobel Dalhousie | Reading Level: good
Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' - and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. ...Show more
Three Stations by Martin Cruz Smith
22.99 AUD
Category: FICTION
As a train pulls into Yaroslav Station, Moscow, a teenage girl - Maya - wakes to an unimaginable horror. Her baby has been taken ... Increasingly disillusioned with the workings of Moscow's Prosecution Service, Arkady Renko is teetering on the brink of resignation when he becomes drawn into a strange n ...Show more